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Within our stories is the mental health care we all need. Storytelling is a fundamental part of being human. Stories help build connections and strong communities. Storytelling, in all its forms, supports mental health and reduces stigma. This year’s Mental Health Week will amplify some of the voices and spaces within which mental health exists across Canada, especially at the community level through non-profit agencies and programs.

Our current website is being revised and rebuilt over the next several weeks. Watch for it!

It’s the season of giving and gratitude…thank you for your help! VIMHS…a look back over the past year…People First Radio: 10 podcasts from 2022…Harm reduction, safe consumption and drug testing to prevent poisoning deaths…VIMHS opens sobering and assessment…

Vancouver Island Mental Health Society’s annual general meeting will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 5 p.m. in Beban Park Social Centre (2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo). Please join us!

We are hiring harm reduction, housing support, and sobering & assessment workers in Campbell River! Join us at the VIMHS Job Fair on July 13th to learn more about helping folks in need of harm reduction, supportive housing, and sobering and assessment services….

It’s CMHA Mental Health Week. Let’s #GetReal about how to help. Every May for the last 71 years, Canadians in communities, schools, workplaces and the House of Commons have rallied around CMHA Mental Health Week. Just as Canadians are experiencing pandemic fatigue…

Mental Health Support Worker (Casual), Nanaimo — The Mental Health Support Worker (MHSW), under the direction of the Clinical Manager…

Residents at the VIMHS Q’waxsem Place supportive housing facility in Campbell River celebrated their first anniversary in the building last month. A 50 unit apartment supportive housing complex on Dogwood Street, Q’waxsem Place was opened officially in February, 2021….